The Nurse Is Caring for an Indigenous Patient Who Has

The nurse is caring for an Indigenous patient who has had recent surgery.In the patient's culture,it is a sign of weakness to complain of pain.In the nurse's culture,people who are having pain ask for pain medicine.The nurse has assumed that the patient has not been having pain and does not need medication because he has not complained of pain.What is the nurse doing?

A) Utilizing cultural imposition by not asking the patient about his pain.
B) Striving to provide culturally congruent care by allowing the patient to suffer.
C) Operating from an emic world view of the patient's cultural beliefs.
D) Practising discrimination by not giving the patient pain medicine.

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